die horribly

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die horribly - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  die horribly
  
     <jargon> The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the
     preferred emphatic form of die.  "The converter choked on an
     FF in its input and died horribly".
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-05-28)
  

die horribly - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  die horribly
   v.
  
     The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred
     emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input
     and died horribly".